Sapphire HD 7950 FleX Review - PAGE 8

Battlefield 3 is designed to deliver unmatched visual quality by including large scale environments, massive destruction and dynamic shadows. Additionally, BF 3 also includes character animation via ANT technology, which is also being utilized in the EA Sports franchise. All of this is definitely going to push any system its threshold, and is the reason so many gamers around the world are currently asking if their current system is up to the task.

The Top graph reflects our results at 1920x1080, while the lower graph reflects our results Eyefinity and Surround results at 5760x1080.

Battlefield is a demanding game at any resolution, but as you can see the HD 7950 FleX was able to run the game at 1080p above 50FPS. NVIDIA graphics cards dominate in this game though, as both the GTX 670 and GTX 680 were well above their AMD rivals.

At 5760x1080 the HD 7950 FleX was again able to perform well, but it couldn't quite get to 30FPS. This made the gameplay feel sluggish at times, but reducing the settings would easily put the frame rate above 30FPS.

Comments

Cool card but the capped overclocking potential is a huge downer :/ given it comes behind NVIDIA in the field as well I'd have to hope for any tweaks available to keep it up with the current crop. There's also the issue of the recent rumor of a refresh of the 7900 core coming along which would make me want to wait to see what performance those chips are able to deliver instead.